The Camera Comfort Cushion is designed to prevent shoulder pain caused by long periods of handheld shooting. Looks like it spreads out the load over a larger area to avoid uncomfortable pressure points. It’s available in fancy colors and styles too. http://www.cameracomfortcushion.com/home.htm
The Carrion is a series of HD monitors designed from the ground up by LS Design. These monitor offer a variety of inputs and frame rates in a 8.4″, 1024×768 LCD monitor. At a price point of under $2000, it’s certainly worth a look.
Here is an informative yet very dry video introduction to the Sony PVM-EX1. 

On Nov. 7-8 2007, the folks at HDEXPO hosted a Red One presentation which is online in it’s entirety. It’s a pretty informative presentation broken up into 9 separate parts. If you don’t have much time jump to the Q&A that starts with part 7.