Hi Mike,
My perception on this thread is that there have been two groups. The first just wants to get their ZEO up and running and collect new data (possibly pulling up old data). From my own experience trying to replicate the ZEO webpage output, I can appreciate the effort ZEO put into what they did provide. The ZEO website provided an Excel download of data for personal processing and now some of us are using the decoder program they provided to extract our data. I believe that is the established focus for this thread.
The second group was pushing at extending the usage of their device with different algorithms and merging with other sensors (note the second group has moved to a new open discussion “Mind”. Your link to the NIH article would go well there, along with the cube sensor information. I think my ZEO merged with accelerometer data will go there also.
I am not sure where the part of your post involving improving a company goes. I read those reviews and have identified solutions to some of their complaints. I will wait for the HBR article to come out on on why they failed.
Good luck on merging data from several devices to improve your health. I am interested in your successes and failures. I encourage you to post the results on the Mind thread.