A surprising look at high tech companies and research in the Aloha state. Shot on location on Maui, Kauai, Oahu, and the Big Island. Features include Trex, a company working on high resolution digital photography, the AEOS telescope run by the Air Force Research Lab on Mount Haleakala, biotech farms growing the antioxidant Astaxanthin, new high tech approaches for Hawaii’s traditional sugar industry, a unique power management system in Hilo, and a look at alternative energy research being done by the National Energy Laboratories of Hawaii in Kona. Originally broadcast in 2001.