Now that Photokina is all wrapped up something occurred to me – I can’t say I was really all that excited about it. Surprising, as Photokina is usually the main “gear lust inspiring” event out there, and you can practically hear the mobs of photographers panting and salivating over each new announcement. And sure there was some pretty cool stuff this year – (Olympus micro-four-thirds prototype? – Awesome. 5DmkII? – sweet. The new paradigm of video on SLRs? – very interesting development.) Overall though, it was just kind of like “oh yeah, new gear…”
I dunno, maybe it’s the economy or maybe I’m just becoming one of those crotchety old photographers who is more concerned with light and composition than with gear 
I think as is common with many photographers as our skills and experience improve, our interest in gear for the sake of gear decreases. I’ve been doing this long enough that I know what I want out of a camera (high quality, light weight, fast wide glass- particularly primes) and I’m happy with what I’ve got.
I’ll probably take a hard look at the olympus “pseudo rangefinder” micro four thirds camera when it comes out (probably not for another year is my guess) but for now I just want to go out and take pictures