Silicon solar cell prices bottomed out. The polymer cell technology has changed the game completely, especially for large panels that could be made as a single unit in a mold instead of a mosaic of smaller cells.
Nope, the current crop of products using that technology cost more, are less efficient and have a shorter lifetime than current poly-crystalline PV technology.
As for the newer version of the polymer technology from the thread article...
Ping me if they ever begin shipping product!
--Boot Hill