A virtual Elizabeth Holmes office provides access to Theranos trial exhibits

Bo Lau, an engineer at Extend, has created a website that simulates Elizabeth Holmes’s office before the collapse of Theranos. In a post dated October 8, she presents an interface that allows users to open a computer, browse a phone and interact with a representation of the Edison machine. TechCrunch reports that the project draws on emails, presentations, messages and documents made public during the trial.

The environment recreates an office in 2016, with an iPhone featuring a home button and a MacBook Air running OS X El Capitan. Users can view trial exhibits through the simulated screens. Interacting with the Theranos machine is part of this interactive reconstruction; it does not demonstrate the validity of its medical technology.

From an analytical perspective, the project’s interest lies in how it presents technical and legal archives. A familiar interface can offer a different reading path from a collection of separate files. It also introduces a staged setting: the accessible exhibits come from the trial, while their arrangement in this office is the website’s creation.

TechCrunch also highlights the project’s promotional dimension. Lau promotes a viewing session organized by her company around a documentary about Holmes, as well as Extend itself. The website therefore combines access to archives with corporate communication. The available information does not allow us to verify the completeness of the document selection or assess Extend’s commercial performance.