An interactive website by engineer Bo Lau invites visitors to explore a recreated version of Elizabeth Holmes’ desk. It brings together emails, texts, slides, documents and machine records that were made public as exhibits in the United States v. Holmes criminal trial.
The project turns a large collection of court materials into a navigable digital environment. Visitors can click through the recreated devices and inspect documents from a pivotal period for Theranos.
A desk recreated from trial materials
Lau’s simulation is set in 2016 and includes details that anchor it to that time. The iPhone has a home button and a slide-to-unlock screen, while the MacBook Air runs OS X El Capitan.
Those devices are more than set dressing. The website lets visitors look through records shown on the phone and laptop, including material that came from exhibits in the criminal trial. The source article describes more than a thousand emails, slides, texts and documents unveiled during the case.
Instead of opening court PDFs one at a time, visitors can navigate through a modeled workspace. That approach gives the documents a shared setting and makes the collection feel more approachable to people who might not otherwise browse legal filings.
What visitors can explore
The site includes documents from Holmes’ iPhone and laptop, as well as a simulated Theranos Edison machine. Theranos had presented the Edison as a device intended to extract large amounts of health data from a single drop of blood.
Visitors can run the machine within the simulation. The experience links the records to the technology at the center of the company’s ambitions, offering a way to encounter both the documentary evidence and a representation of the product.
The website’s value comes in part from this combination. A folder of files can show what was said or recorded, while an interactive desk gives visitors a place to connect those materials with the devices and machine associated with the company.
Public records made easier to browse
The project appears designed to entertain, but it also offers a different route into public trial evidence. The source materials were disclosed through the legal process, and Lau’s site organizes them into an experience that is easier to explore than thousands of separate PDFs on court websites.
That format can help visitors move between documents and understand them as parts of a larger record. It does not change where the materials came from: the emails, texts, slides, documents and Theranos machine records are described as real items sourced from exhibits in the criminal trial.
For a case that attracted broad attention in the technology world, the format makes the underlying evidence more legible to casual visitors. The desk is a simulation, but the records displayed within it come from the case materials.
A project with a promotional purpose
Lau is also using the project to promote a watch party her company is hosting for Nathan Fielder’s upcoming documentary about Elizabeth Holmes, You Can See Everything. The website therefore serves both as an exhibit browser and as a way to draw attention to the event.
There is a business connection, too. Lau works at Extend, which describes its offering as a way to “parse, extract, and split your hardest documents with unmatched accuracy.” The source article notes that the product description is not especially clear, while suggesting that the Holmes desk simulator gives a tangible example of what document-handling tools might help create.
For visitors, the result is an unusual combination: a recreated executive workspace, an interactive machine and a large collection of trial exhibits. It makes public records easier to approach while also promoting a documentary event and the company behind the project.