My brother is into photography. He has been the photo-editor at the Gauntlet Newspaper (The University of Calgary's Student Run Paper) for the past few years and always has a few good tips. Anyway he told me that you can really improve your pictures with a steady cam tripod but they usually run between $600 and $1500. Well today I found a site that shows you how to build your own Steady-Cam for about $14 (I'm guessing that's USD).