Tachibana General Laboratories

Tachibana Labs, Tachibana Laboratories, or Tachibana General Laboratories, is a fictional company within Serial Experiments Lain. They are mostly known for being the company that employed Masami Eiri as Project Director of Protocol 7 up until his death. They are the company responsible for the creation of Copland OS, by far the most popular OS for NAVIs, and also manufacture hardware.

Trivia

 * Tachibana is the name of a Japanese citrus orange, there is a possibility that the creators of Lain chose this name in order to emulate Apple.
 * The HANDINAVI devices that Tachibana General Laboratories produce bear striking resemblances to older PDA devices, such as the Nokia 3310 and the Apple Newton
 * The NAVI devices that Tachibana General Laboratories produce bear striking resemblances to the Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh and iMac.