Hello
this was a story on canal+, a TV show in France on about home video technique. click on the yellow writings.
http://www.magazinevideo.com/video-details.php?videoId=178
its about a 25 year old genius named Leonard who build stsabilisator in his garage, he also have a website.
one is made from a child bicycle, it work with giroscopic force(energy) and when the wheel turn it turn for 1 to 2 minutes.
also a turning one
and he build for the Tv show a 2 support camera so the reporter can have free hands while he walk.


this his website but automatic translation from google so maybe some mistake.

http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bignoz.com&langpair=fr%7Cen&hl=fr&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&prev=%2Flanguage_tools

Very Interesting. I liked the "rat-cam" about in the middle of the video. It was very effective and gave a very smooth shot.