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Interactive Website Recreates Elizabeth Holmes' Desk Using Theranos Trial Exhibits
An engineer has built a website that lets visitors sit at Elizabeth Holmes' desk and browse more than 1,000 emails, texts, slides and documents entered into evidence in the United States v. Holmes criminal trial.
Bo Lau, an engineer at the software company Extend, assembled the project from exhibits made public during the criminal case against the Theranos founder, then rebuilt them as objects a visitor can click through.
The archive runs to over a thousand emails, slides, texts and documents, all pulled from the court record rather than invented for the site. Visitors navigate them as if they were the chief executive of Theranos before the company collapsed.
The environment is set in 2016 and is deliberately detailed. The iPhone on the desk has a home button, so it is unlocked by sliding a finger across the screen, and the MacBook Air runs OS X El Capitan.
Clicking around the room lets users open messages and files on the phone and laptop displays, reading the same material that was submitted during the trial.
The desk also includes the Theranos Edison machine, which can be run on screen. The device was the company's ill-fated product, pitched as a way to extract large amounts of health data from a single drop of blood.