Pretend you’re sitting at Elizabeth Holmes’ desk on this weirdly detailed website

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.)

随着美国诉伊丽莎白·霍姆斯案中上千封电子邮件、幻灯片、短信和文件的披露，Extend 公司的工程师 Bo Lau 创建了一个网站，模拟了在一切崩塌之前，作为 Theranos 首席执行官的生活。（我每天都很感激美国的法律体系，让证据开示过程变得公开透明。）

i built a website where you can sit at elizabeth holmes’ deskopen her macbook, scroll her iphone, run the theranos edison machineher 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

“我建立了一个网站，你可以坐在伊丽莎白·霍姆斯的办公桌前，打开她的 MacBook，滑动她的 iPhone，运行 Theranos 的 Edison 机器。她的短信、电子邮件、幻灯片、文档和 Theranos 机器记录都是真实的，来源于美国诉霍姆斯刑事审判中的证据。”—— Bo Lau (@bolau_)，2026 年 10 月 8 日。

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.

Lau 所创造的环境细节极其丰富，将你直接带回了 2016 年——那是一个 iPhone 还有主屏幕按钮，且需要滑动屏幕才能解锁的时代。甚至连那台 MacBook Air 运行的都是 OS X El Capitan 系统。

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.

你可以在这个环境中点击交互，查看从法庭案件中公开的、显示在霍姆斯的 iPhone 和笔记本电脑屏幕上的文档。你甚至可以运行 Theranos 的 Edison 机器，这台公司命运多舛的设备曾被宣称能够从一滴血中提取大量的健康数据。

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.

这个项目看起来主要是为了娱乐，但它实际上提供了一种有趣的方式来查阅科技史上最臭名昭著的法庭案件中的文件——比起从法院网站上搜寻数千份 PDF 文件，这种方式导航起来要容易得多。

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.

不过，这背后还有另一个目的。Lau 正在宣传她公司举办的一场观影派对，内容是 Nathan Fielder 即将推出的关于伊丽莎白·霍姆斯的纪录片《你可以看到一切》（You Can See Everything）。当然，她也在宣传公司本身。

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.)

那么，Extend 到底是做什么的呢？显然，它能够“以无与伦比的准确性解析、提取和拆分你最复杂的文档”。（我不太确定这意味着什么，但如果它能让像霍姆斯办公桌模拟器这样的项目成为可能，那么我想我对 B2B SaaS 领域还是看好的。）