Pretend you’re sitting at Elizabeth Holmes’ desk on this weirdly detailed website
Engineer Bo Lau has created an interactive website that simulates Elizabeth Holmes' desk, allowing users to explore real documents and exhibits from the Theranos trial. The project serves as both a creative way to navigate legal archives and a promotional tool for the developer's document-parsing startup.
Why it matters
It demonstrates how public legal data can be transformed into accessible, interactive digital experiences while highlighting the intersection of tech marketing and historical accountability.
With over a thousand emails, slides, texts, and documents unveiled during the United States v. Elizabeth Holmes trial, Extend engineer Bo Lau created a website that simulates what it might have been like to be the chief executive of Theranos before everything came crashing down.
(Every day, I am grateful to the American legal system for making the discovery process public.)
i built a website where you can sit at elizabeth holmes’ desk open her macbook, scroll her iphone, run the theranos edison machine her texts, emails, slides, documents, and theranos machine records are real, sourced from exhibits in the united states v. holmes criminal trial pic.twitter.com/5At9T5m3UV
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