Like everyone else, Ando looks to the Web to cut the steps between factory and store.
"We have created an entertainment mobile, a new platform, " Ando says, admiring his new digital baby.
"You will see that the entire senior management of Pharmacia is leaving Pfizer, " Ando says.
Mr Ando cooked quantities, but had trouble getting the moisture out and keeping any flavouring in.
Already available in Japan, Ando said Sony will start releasing Cocoon-branded products around the world this year.
"A couple of years ago Celltech made the strategic decision to be a self-financed company, " Ando says.
Ando also announced a product called Roomlink that will connect Sony's Vaio-branded PCs to its Wega TV screens.
Ando has a rescue plan, one that sounds a lot like Sony's perennial recipe for staying out of trouble.
Ando was quickly back at work renovating that building, which opened in 2009.
Ando may be the first executive out the door at Pharmacia, but he is unlikely to be the last.
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By the end of the first year Mr Ando had sold 13m bags and had attracted a dozen competitors.
Idei has now assumed a long-range strategy role, giving day-to-day control to President Ando, the 58-year-old former chief of the bread-and-butter electronics division.
"The joke is, thank God aspirin is around, because you'd never get it on the market these days, " says Pharmacia's Ando.
Meanwhile, Ando says that Pharmacia employees are a bit shaken up by the months of uncertainty brought on by the Pfizer acquisition.
Ando was drafted again to design a redo of the palace's interior.
" As in Tadao Ando's architecture, "structure and function are intuitively understood.
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Ando simplified the 53, 800-square-foot space by aligning doorways and hanging a giant white veil under the glass atrium to diffuse the natural light.
Ando said he hopes that one day he will be able to play baseball with his son, who is an avid sports fan.
Ando says he didn't know much about Celltech until Pharmacia struck a deal to co-develop a rheumatoid arthritis drug with the British firm.
Refereeing the competing visions for Sony's next blockbuster platform, or finding a good way to champion all of them, falls squarely on Ando's shoulders.
Mr Ando's approach is shared by Rafael Moneo, a Spanish architect, who designed the Audrey Jones Beck Building for the Houston Museum of Fine Arts.
Like everything Mr Ando designs, this project invites meditation and contemplation.
The Shanghai Poly Theater, by Tadao Ando, is now under construction in Jiading, China, next to a man-made lake in the center of a large park.
Other projects for the Culture District include a performing arts centre designed by Zaha Hadid, a Baghdad-born British woman, and a maritime museum by Japan's Tadao Ando.
He admits Ando's cherished mobile devices "will be like black holes, sucking every electronic function into them, " but he bets digital entertainment will begin in the broadband home.
To design the museum he tapped Tadao Ando of Japan, whose dramatic 320, 000-square-foot building was to be shaped like a giant ocean liner topped by twin glass towers.
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What Ando didn't expand upon are the plans Sony has for the digital rights management firm InterTrust, which it just acquired with the help of Phillips Electronics .
One cold night in 1957, walking home from his salt-making factory in Osaka, in Japan, Mr Ando saw white clouds of steam in the street, and a crowd of people gathering.
The BBC's Ben Ando, outside the central London hospital, says there is a small police presence and members of the press from around the world have gathered near the entrance.
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