HP CEO Meg Whitman told attendees at a tech conference in Bangkok that HP is working on a 3D printer and will be showing it off by mid-2014, reports The Register's Simon Sharwood.

"3D printing is in its infancy" she said on Wednesday. "It's a big opportunity and we are all over it. We will have something by the middle of next year."

HP Labs is already working on 3D printers, trying to produce a variant that costs less and works faster than today's models, she said. "To print a bottle can take eight to ten hours. That's all very interesting, but it is like watching ice melt," she said.