This page would look a lot spiffier if you downloaded a standards compliant web browser.
The junk mail to spam converter is a prototype designed and built to demonstrate the idea of a physical-to-virtual filter. A piece of mail is fed into a slot in the front of the machine, and a webcam takes a picture of the envelope and emails it to your account before the letter is shredded.
junk to spam
http://dmg.caup.washington.edu/mapterrain/browsers/lynx/project1.html