Simulate Elizabeth Holmes' Desk via New Website

According to TechCrunch reporting by Amanda Silberling, Extend engineer Bo Lau built an interactive website that replicates the desk of Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes before the company's collapse. The simulation uses real emails, slides, texts, documents, and machine records sourced directly from court exhibits in the United States v. Elizabeth Holmes criminal trial. Users can open a simulated MacBook Air running OS X El Capitan, scroll through an iPhone with a home button and slide-to-unlock feature, and interact with the ill-fated Theranos Edison machine, a device originally designed to extract health data from a single drop of blood. Lau built the project partly to promote her company, Extend, and to advertise a watch party for an upcoming documentary about Elizabeth Holmes.

The website offers an alternative way to peruse public records from a major tech trial without having to manually source thousands of PDF documents from court websites. It also serves as a promotional tool for the creator's company, showcasing document-parsing technology.

The detailed simulation turns thousands of pages of complex federal court evidence into an interactive digital experience, offering a glimpse into the corporate environment of Theranos before its downfall.