Until recently I had a iHome clock radio with an iPad dock on the night stand next to my bed. About a month ago the iPod dock in the radio died. It wouldn’t charge the iPod or play anything through it. I was in the habit of going to sleep listening to music or podcasts from my iPad, using the radio’s sleep timer. Unfortunately the iPad doesn’t have a sleep timer, so while the iPad seemed to be an ideal replacement, it lacked one key feature so the search was on.