Touchwipe is a jQuery Plugin that allows you to obtain the wipe event on an iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch which can be used for example to scroll through an image gallery. Should also work with Android touchscreens. It’s very small, it’s only 1 KB.

Example

$("#target").touchwipe({
    wipeLeft: function() { alert("left"); },
    wipeRight: function() { alert("right"); },
    wipeUp: function() { alert("up"); },
    wipeDown: function() { alert("down"); }
});

jQuery Touchwipe Plugin (iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch Gesten / Gestures, Wischeffekt / Wipe Effect)