Shark Shield is a traction pad that creates an electric field around your surfboard when you’re in the water. According to the company this field is annoying to sharks and “nine times out of ten” it will scare a shark away.

Shark Shield’s innovative tail pad and adhesive decal electrode design is 100 percent user installable on any surfboard, new or old, providing a cost effective and immediate solution for protecting surfers across the globe. When surfers select to install an Ocean & Earth Shark Shield tail pad, they can install the electronics module at any time in the future, turning the board into a shark deterrent. The miniaturized electronic module is completely removable and thus transferable between surfboards.

The shield is currently available for purchase for about $600. Not a bad investment if you enjoy surfing in particularly sharky surf. For the official word from Shark Shield, please follow the jump.

Sticky Bumps announces the release of Munkey Surf Wax, an evolution of the Original Sticky Bumps formula that adds more lift and hold to your surfing maneuvers.

MUNKEY wax is stickier than Sticky Bumps Original, the benchmark for overall performance, but not over the top sticky like our PUNT waxes. MUNKEY adds a bit more stick for a more refined connection of surfer/board. You can apply it to the entire surface of the board and even over your old wax for an extremely fun session.

“We’ve had a ton of positive feedback about MUNKEY from our Team and Ambassadors. They go ape $h!t over it.” declared Ryan Dahl, MUNKEY Wax formulator.

Imagine a stylish, watch-type device that not only tells the time but can track stats ranging from airtime to number of times you paddle surfing, knows what sport you’re participating in automatically, spits out stats on your mobile device, and lets you build contests to one up yourself and your friends.

This futuristic idea came to the crew at NZN Labs and Vapor Studio, and they’ve turned their dream into reality with a new action sports-specific activity tracker called LIT, which debuted on Indiegogo April 2, raising $27k of its $100k goal in just one day.

Conceived by NZN’s Ricardo Camargo, Michael Ford, and Richard Zinn, the crew’s goal is to do for the activity tracking market what GoPro did for camera world, and after looking through the functionality, it looks like they’re onto something big.