--- title: Aura Aspen: The Best Inventions of 2025 description: Find out why Aura Aspen is on TIME's list of 2025's best inventions. canonical: https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2025/7318374/aura-aspen/ article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2025-10-09T11:00:17.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T11:54:52.939Z article:section: Business og:title: Aura Aspen: The Best Inventions of 2025 og:description: Find out why Aura Aspen is on TIME's list of 2025's best inventions. og:url: https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2025/7318374/aura-aspen/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3a721f2c51126a9f/6998ca829fbc7c3887d9a7f4/Aura-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: Aura Aspen: The Best Inventions of 2025 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Aura Aspen: The Best Inventions of 2025 twitter:description: Find out why Aura Aspen is on TIME's list of 2025's best inventions. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3a721f2c51126a9f/6998ca829fbc7c3887d9a7f4/Aura-TIME-Best-Inventions-2025.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Oct 09, 2025 # Aura Aspen A digital frame for smartphone photographers by [Derek Rose](https://time.com/author/derek-rose/) ## Derek Rose  Courtesy Aura As Twitter’s first chief scientist, Abdur Chowdhury observed technology’s ability to unite and fragment people at once. Hoping to snapshot the good, he co-founded Aura, known for its best-in-class digital picture frames, in 2012\. This year, the company released its most versatile offering yet: Aspen’s 11.8-inch, anti-glare matte screen has a 4:3 aspect ratio—the same as smartphone cameras—and can display in portrait or landscape mode. It also boasts a remarkably slim, 1.1-inch profile. “Seeing photos of your life—and all the people in it—makes you feel good,” Chowdhury says. “If it isn’t to bring us closer together, why are we capturing those moments?” **Buy Now:** Aura Aspen on [Amazon](https://amzn.to/4haJbP5) 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-2025/7318374/aura-aspen/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2025/7318374/aura-aspen/"},"headline":"Aura Aspen","datePublished":"2025-10-09T11:00:17.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T11:54:52.939Z","description":"","url":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2025/7318374/aura-aspen/","keywords":["Tech","E-Commerce","list","franchise","Magazine","best inventions","Special Project","sponsorshipblock","Accolades","Best Inventions 2025"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3a721f2c51126a9f/6998ca829fbc7c3887d9a7f4/Aura-TIME-Best-Inventions-2025.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Derek Rose","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/derek-rose/"}],"creator":"Derek Rose","articleSection":"Business","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3a721f2c51126a9f/6998ca829fbc7c3887d9a7f4/Aura-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-2025/7318374/aura-aspen/","name":"Aura Aspen"}}]}] ```