Use electrolytes to charge your iPod.
Find an onion.
Purchase a medium-sized onion.
Soak in the Gatorade.
Punch 2 holes in the onion. Then pour two cups of Gatorade or Powerade and soak the onion in it for 30 minutes.
Charge the iPod.
After 30 minutes take it out and dry it off. Then plug the end of the USB cable into the onion. It will take a minute for it to work.
Conclusion
Fun project and you learn and get music from it.