Are most new technology products just fashion items?

The new items, google glass that is the computer in a pair of spectacles are not a showcase event, but real life. It has an effect on the next wave of computing that is wearable, immersive stuff. It adds information culled from the internet to your field of view. Moreover we are able to talk to it and instruct it. Technology has been turned into a fashion item. The point of a new feature or a new app is churn.