Jonathan Shefftz wrote:

Also, Fritschi for this season is coming out with a ski crampon that
can somehow be attached yet not deployed - a big plus for those
situations when you're wondering whether to fix crampons now and have
an annoying drag yet therefore not have to remove the skis to attach
the crampons on some sketchy terrain.

The Axiom crampon. It sounds interesting, sort of folds up on the toe
piece. The bindings (eXplore) are also supposed to accept the old Diamir
crampons so you don't have to throw out your old kit right away... only
people I know who skied the eXplore last season had trouble fitting the
old bindings. As Booker said above, v1.0 kit often has defects, but
someone has to be an early adopter or the state of the art won't move
forward.