A website lets you explore Elizabeth Holmes' Theranos desk
Engineer Bo Lau built a website that recreates Elizabeth Holmes's desk using more than a thousand emails, slides, texts, and documents from the United States v. Holmes trial. Visitors can open a MacBook, scroll an iPhone, and run the Theranos Edison machine while browsing real exhibits from the case. The project also promotes a watch party for a Nathan Fielder documentary and Lau's employer, Extend.
Bo Lau, an engineer at Extend, assembled the simulator from more than 1,000 exhibits released during Elizabeth Holmes's criminal trial. The site places users at Holmes's desk and recreates a 2016-era workspace, including an iPhone with a home button and a MacBook Air running OS X El Capitan.
Visitors can inspect emails, texts, slides, documents, and Theranos machine records by interacting with the laptop and phone, and can operate the Edison device. The project also advertises a watch party for Nathan Fielder's documentary "You Can See Everything" and highlights Extend's document-processing services.
Projects like this may make public trial records more approachable for journalists, students, and curious tech observers, potentially improving transparency around startup accountability. It could also blur entertainment and evidence, risking oversimplification of Theranos's harm to patients and investors. Because it doubles as marketing for Extend and a documentary watch party, audiences may encounter the case through a promotional lens.