TECHNOLOGY
Interactive site theranos.world lets visitors sit at Elizabeth Holmes's 2016 desk, as promo for an A24 documentary
A new website built by developer Bo Lau recreates the desk of Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes in 2016, with real court-exhibit emails, texts and files. It is a promotional project tied to an A24 documentary and the AI startup Extend.
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A website called theranos.world lets visitors sit at the office desk of Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes as it looked in 2016.
The site was built by developer Bo Lau. It is described as a creative "content marketing" campaign for Extend, a startup that makes AI tools for processing documents.
Visitors can use a simulated 2016-era MacBook Air and iPhone. On them, they can scroll through more than a thousand emails, text messages, slides and files. According to the site, these come from public court exhibits used in the criminal trial United States v. Elizabeth Holmes.
The desk also has an interactive version of the Edison, the blood-testing device Theranos promoted. Users can try to run it from the digital desk.
A banner at the top of the page invites visitors to a watch party in San Francisco on October 22nd. It is an advance screening of a new A24 documentary called "You Can See Everything". The site describes the film as secretive.
The film is directed by Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim. It follows the last 34 days of Holmes' life before she went to federal prison in 2023, according to the site.
A24 is a client of Extend. The developers used Extend's document-parsing APIs, which are tools that pull information out of files, to build the experience as a promotional event.