Bose doesn’t use the same pin numbers ... He still needs to do a little more digging to figure out how to turn on the dock without having the iPod in place. I think a nice hack would be building ...

(1)Go to Wal-mart (or elsewhere) and buy the Griffin Dock Adapter for iPod Shuffle (~$20) and a Belkin Speaker and Headphone splitter (~$4). (The Belkin splitter is needed in order to fit properly ...

The SoundTouch Portable looks like any other sound dock from Bose. Except it has a nice single colour LCD screen at the front, instead of the docking spot for the iPhone or iPod.