--- title: Cognixion Axon-R: The Best Inventions of 2025 description: Find out why Cognixion Axon-R is on TIME's list of 2025's best inventions. canonical: https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2025/7318312/cognixion-axon-r/ article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2025-10-09T11:00:16.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T11:54:49.660Z article:section: Business og:title: Cognixion Axon-R: The Best Inventions of 2025 og:description: Find out why Cognixion Axon-R is on TIME's list of 2025's best inventions. og:url: https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2025/7318312/cognixion-axon-r/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt10d76491277d69cd/6998ca8ce1ba00be7198dfdc/cognixion-axon-R-TIME-best-inventions-2025.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Cognixion Axon-R: The Best Inventions of 2025 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Cognixion Axon-R: The Best Inventions of 2025 twitter:description: Find out why Cognixion Axon-R is on TIME's list of 2025's best inventions. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt10d76491277d69cd/6998ca8ce1ba00be7198dfdc/cognixion-axon-R-TIME-best-inventions-2025.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Oct 09, 2025 # Cognixion Axon-R Voice for the voiceless by [Jared Lindzon](https://time.com/author/jared-lindzon/) ## Jared Lindzon Jared Lindzon is the co-author of "Do More in Four: Why It’s Time for a Shorter Workweek"  Courtesy Cognixion This noninvasive headset gives voice to people who have lost theirs to traumatic brain injury, stroke, ALS, or other neurological conditions. Axon-R measures eye, head, and brain activity to let individuals select letters, words, or commands, and also builds a personalized assistive AI model that suggests response words and phrases to users. The headset’s speaker generates speech in their voice. “It gives them their life back,” says founder and CEO Andreas Forsland. In March, Cognixion announced a [clinical trial](https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT06810219) with late-stage ALS patients. Axon-R, which leading brain-computer interface company Blackrock Neurotech began distributing this year, is now being used by over a dozen major health systems. These are independent reviews of the products mentioned, but TIME receives a commission when purchases are made through affiliate links at no additional cost to the purchaser. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2025/7318312/cognixion-axon-r/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2025/7318312/cognixion-axon-r/"},"headline":"Cognixion Axon-R","datePublished":"2025-10-09T11:00:16.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T11:54:49.660Z","description":"","url":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2025/7318312/cognixion-axon-r/","keywords":["Tech","E-Commerce","list","franchise","Magazine","best inventions","Special Project","sponsorshipblock","Accolades","Best Inventions 2025"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt10d76491277d69cd/6998ca8ce1ba00be7198dfdc/cognixion-axon-R-TIME-best-inventions-2025.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Jared Lindzon","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/jared-lindzon/"}],"creator":"Jared Lindzon","articleSection":"Business","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt10d76491277d69cd/6998ca8ce1ba00be7198dfdc/cognixion-axon-R-TIME-best-inventions-2025.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/business/","name":"Business"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-tech/","name":"Tech"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2025/7318312/cognixion-axon-r/","name":"Cognixion Axon-R"}}]}] ```