I can tell you how IKBS works.
It's a simple ball bearing system integrated into the knife. The walls are made of the blade and handles. The inner race is the pivot. The outer race is a hole bored into the handle. The ball bearings themselves actually sit mostly inside the handle. The reason for that is because if you just tried to slip a 1/16" bearing system in between the handle and blade, you'd have a 1/16" gap there, and that's WAY too big, so the bearing system has to be embedded into either the handle or the blade, but embedding it in the blade creates a lot of weakness there. So IKBS is a bearing system with the outer race integrated into the handles.
More on how IKBS is put together here:
http://www.ikbsknifetech.com/11/1504.htmlIKBS won't work on typhoons because it requires an outer race of at least 5/16", and Typhoon handles are only 5/16" wide at the pivot, so there's no room for it.
I don't know much about MaxxGlide. What I do know is that DDR has installed it into channel-style knives, and in order to do that, the bearing system must be self-contained in a neat little package. Kinda like the bearings you find in bicycles, complete with spacers and all that, but on a much smaller sclae.