Your bad habits are destroying your charging cables bbc.com

Charging cables are the most overlooked technology in your life, until they break and you’re stuck with a dying phone. You’re the reason they keep failing. Here’s how to take better care of them. Michael Pecht tortures charging cables. He’s the founder of the Center for Advanced Life Cycle Engineering at the University of Maryland, a laboratory where tech companies send gadgets to learn why they break. “We’re like the morgue,” Pecht tells me, “but for electronics”.