What Fails First in The Future? Plastics vs. Electronics

Recently I had to retire two electronic gadgets, a mouse and a speaker. It happens, you might say, electronics doesn’t live forever. True, but in these cases it was the first time that I had to retire devices not because their electronics failed, but because of the plastic outside that has started to become soft and sticky! Both the mouse and the speaker were still functioning properly and I used them almost everyday. Quite sad to see and a real waste!