People over at MIT have developed a piece of open-source software that lets you drag files from your phone to your computer or tablet or whatever with a swipe of a finger. It’s simple and clever and looks like the future – and it works. They’re calling it Swÿp. Take a look at the demo after the jump.

The program has been developed by the Fluid Interfaces group at the MIT Media Lab. Said PhD students working in the group, Alexander List and Natan Linder:

Our framework allows any number of touch-sensing and collocated devices to establish file-exchange and communications with no pairing other than a physical gesture.

Which means you can, once this thing gets out of development and into the app store, transfer files with a flick of the wrist, rather than having to use Dropbox, Gmail or the rest. They’re looking to make the thing Kinect-compatible too.

It works by gathering information about the Swÿp-enabled devices’ approximate locations (available via WiFi) and account details, then attaches that information to a real-time gesture – the swiping of a file from one device to the other.

[Source: FastCodeDesign]