把 Elizabeth Holmes 的办公桌做成可点开的网站：一千多封邮件、幻灯与短信都来自美国诉 Holmes 案的公开证物，连 MacBook Air 都跑着 OS X El Capitan
Pretend you’re sitting at Elizabeth Holmes’ desk on this weirdly detailed website
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在美国诉 Elizabeth Holmes 一案中公开了一千多封邮件、幻灯、短信与文档，Extend 的工程师 Bo Lau 据此做了一个网站，模拟在一切崩塌之前当 Theranos 首席执行官是什么感觉。这个环境细节得相当过分：把你带回 2016 年——iPhone 还有 home 键、得滑动解锁，MacBook Air 跑的是 OS X El Capitan。你可以在里面随意点开，通过 Holmes 的 iPhone 与笔记本屏幕浏览那桩官司里公开的文档，甚至能运行 Theranos 那台命途多舛的 Edison 机器——本号称能从一滴血提取大量健康数据的那台设备。项目多半是做来逗趣的，但它确实是一种挺有意思地翻阅科技史上最著名案件文档的方式——比去法院网站上翻几千份 PDF 好走得多。作者也提醒还有另一层用意：Lau 在为公司即将举办的 Nathan Fielder 关于 Holmes 的纪录片《You Can See Everything》观影会做宣传，顺带也在宣传公司本身；至于 Extend 究竟做什么，官方说法是能「以无可比拟的准确度解析、抽取并拆分你最难的文档」——作者自嘲不懂那是什么意思，但既然它能做出这样一个 Holmes 桌面模拟器，那他大概对 B2B SaaS 挺看好的。
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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 — bo lau (@bolau_) October 8, 2026
The environment that Lau created is ambitiously detailed, taking you right back to 2016, a time when iPhones had home buttons, and you had to slide your finger across the screen to unlock it. Even the MacBook Air is running OS X El Capitan.
You can click around the environment, which lets you look through the documents made public from the court case on Holmes’ iPhone and laptop screens. You can even run the Theranos Edison machine, the company’s ill-fated device that was supposed to be able to extract large amounts of health data from one drop of blood.
The project seems like it was mostly made for laughs, but it’s actually an interesting way to peruse the documents from one of the most infamous court cases in tech history — it’s a lot easier to navigate this than to source thousands of PDFs from court websites.
There’s another agenda, though. Lau is promoting a watch party that her company is throwing for Nathan Fielder’s upcoming documentary about Elizabeth Holmes, “ You Can See Everything .”
Also, of course, she’s promoting the company itself. So, what exactly does Extend do? Apparently, it can “parse, extract, and split your hardest documents with unmatched accuracy.” (I’m not really sure what that means, but if it makes something like this Holmes desk simulator possible, then I guess that means I’m bullish on B2B SaaS.)
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