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It was only last year that the industry introduced Pandora on a few car stereo receivers and now practically every company not only offers it, but they're doing so at the lower end of their product lines. You can get a Pandora receiver for well under $200. It almost reduces a cool feature to a mundane level. So if you don't see one of those on this list, that's because it seems like old news even though we saw them only a few days ago at the Convention Center. I'm not being entirely serious, of course. You'll probably see some of the aforementioned products in following Top Products articles.

How fast technology moves is an old story. Another old story is "convergence". We've been talking about it for years, but we're starting to see it really get into gear. We're seeing it in terms of the evolution of CES as a show where cars, computers and gadgets all compete for our attention. Likewise, all those categories of products are in some way, or in a very intimate way in some cases, working together, interfacing at very fundamental levels. Portable electronics are made to work in cars and cars can't run unless they have computer systems and so forth. And you'll see that car audio products are taking cues from smartphones and the culture of apps to broaden the functionality of those devices. That being said, here's the first group of top products and technology that represent some of our favorites from the show.

Clarion introduced two all-new premium in-dash navigation units CES. They feature high-resolution widescreen VGA touch panel displays with four times the clarity of their predecessor models, and a full-featured active GUI with unique HMI graphics to control all navigation, multimedia and connectivity features. On-screen you'll see discrete animated icons with intelligence and touch confirmation for easy operation. The main source screen is customizable and has animated icons with flick operation for fast scrolling. Consumers used to smartphones and tablets will find Clarion's system quite familiar.

The Aha Radio® Mobile App turns social media and traffic apps into audio broadcasts. Users can listen toFacebook and Twitter updates, access hundreds of podcasts and even access real-time vicinity search results for things like restaurants on Yelp. It’s on-demand, interactive, personalized radio available through Pioneer’s new AVIC head units.

The double-DIN AVIC-Z130BT also boasts a 3D graphics accelerator, 4GB of flash memory, DVD playback, built-in Bluetooth for hands-free calls and music streaming, iPod/iPhone connectivity and built-in HD Radio. With the inclusion of the ND-TMC10 Radio Data Service-Traffic Message Channel tuner, the AVIC-Z130BT also offers free Total Traffic Network service from Clear Channel. An optional add-on brings SiriusXM radio. The AVIC-Z130BT will be available in April for suggested retail price of $1,500.